Buy this book on-line DONLEAVY**, J. P: : THE HISTORY OF THE GINGER MAN - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYLONDON.VIKING PENGUIN,1994. ISBN 0670847933.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,subject's biographical b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some minor indents/impressions to upper panel of dw/dj - but without affecting boards beneath,some minimal,superficial scoring to rear panel of dw/dj too.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-517pp [paginated] includes 46 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w biographical photographs and thumbnail illustrations/sketches interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] blank with publisher's advert to it's reverse,title page,b/w facsimile manuscript extract,title separator page,and a publisher's note to rear.
This is he dramatic story of J. P. Donleavy's struggle to create and publish a book which became a 20th century masterpiece: 'The Ginger Man'.It is literary history combined with Donleavy's autobiography - growing up in the Bronx,education at Catholic schools,service in the US Navy,travels and adventures,and his current life as a proprietor of a landed estate in Ireland,where he breeds thoroughbred cattle.
Trinity College,Dublin after WW2 was a mecca for adventurous Americans,who used the GI bill as a passport to higher education.Among them were able-bodied seaman second class J.P. 'Mike' Donleavy,fighter pilot George Roy Hill (now a celebrated Hollywood director) and naval yeoman Gainor Stephen Crist,a midwestern rara avis and prototype of the Ginger Man.Student life included degrees in debauchery; drunken brawls in Dublin pubs; comic adventures with Brendan Behan; eccentric Angl-Irish aristocrats; living on miraculous credit and in constant debt,with plenty of time for the seduction of nice Catholic girls.
Donleavy,impecunious and newly married,began to write 'The Ginger Man' in a primitive cottage at Kilcoole.The book was written over a period of four years on two continents.Upon completion it was rejected by nearly thirty-five British and American publishers.The book was finally pubished in Paris by Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press - as a work of pornography.
Twenty-five years of bitter litigation between Donleavy and Girodias followed,with Donleavy emerging triumphant as the owner of Olympia and its copyrights,including 'The Ginger Man'.Since its traumatic birth,'The Ginger Man' has become a contemporary classic,translated into many languages with millions of copies sold throughout the world.See my book ID rja219 'THE GOOD SHIP VENUS: The Erotic Voyage of the OLYMPIA PRESS' by John de St Jorre,for a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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